Manteca's push for an alignment of a proposed McKinley Avenue expressway that would cut a swath through farms, rural estates, and the future site of a Catholic retreat and school has run out of gas - for now.

RIPON - Ripon's Mistlin Park was the scene Monday morning for the annual kickoff for a mission of honor and hope for a cancer cure for firefighters that is taking a single engine 20,000 miles zigzagging across the U.S. and Canada.

In the last five months, Sofia Rose Conde has had 40 blood transfusions. That's a total of 40 trips from Lathrop to Doctors Medical Center in Modesto with each visit requiring nine hours total – including drawing blood samples, blood testing in the lab, blood matching, and the actual blood transfusion procedure.

California lawmakers are getting ready to pull the plug on a state program that partially justified vehicle license fee increases to provide jurisdictions with law enforcement agencies at least $100,000 for discretionary spending to beef up policing.